Nothing But Solitude | Lapham’s Quarterly
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When Renaissance explorers went north, they found a lunar landscape here on earth.
Boat on ice, from the Log of Samuel Smith, Surgeon to the Hon. Hudson’s Bay Co. Ship Prince Arthur from London to Moose Fort, June 13 to August 24, 1857. Flickr , Toronto Public Library (CC BY-SA 2.0). I n June 1578, the English privateer Martin Frobisher launched the last of three doomed voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia. His fleet of ships left Plymouth one month later than planned, headed for eastern Greenland. Weeks into the trip, Frobisher’s fleet encountered a colossal storm of fog, snow, and ice. The expedition’s chronicler, a sailor named Thomas Ellis, described what hap
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